When a patient group is compared against a healthy baseline using fMRI, the acquired images produce significant spatial differences in whole-brain connectivity and activation ... groups for both ...

A popular hypothesis for how the brain clears molecular waste, which may help explain why sleep feels refreshing, is a ...

Leibniz Institute for Primate Research and the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics have discovered ...

Everything the brain does—from storing memories to interpreting sights to regulating emotions—requires energy, all produced ...

Scientists have long tried to understand the human brain by comparing it to other primates. Researchers are still trying to ...

The brain disease model of addiction has dominated public and scientific discourse on addiction (termed substance use disorder [SUD] in the DSM-5) over the past 3 decades. The model framed addiction ...

Hundreds of cubes of human brain tissue help scientists to chart the energy-making capabilities of various brain regions.

Mapping the density, molecular features and energy-transformation capacity of cell organelles called mitochondria in the brain reveals region- and cell-type-specific variability that tracks with ...

New insights have emerged into how the human brain develops. Two genes that are unique to humans work together to influence ...

To build the map, researchers at Columbia University and the University of Bordeaux took a slice of a frozen human brain and, ...

New structural markers of memory storage uncovered by Scripps Research may pave the way for new treatments for memory loss.

Mar. 5, 2025 — Scientists used positron emission tomography (PET) with edaravone, a drug used to treat ALS, to detect oxidative stress, which leads to brain damage, ... New 4D Brain Map Reveals ...